Responsible for planning, preparation and conducting line trials to ensure outputs are fully documented with adherence to food safety, production quality standards and customer requirements

Work collaboratively with suppliers and attend scale up trials for new raw materials to ensure that they are of a repeatable and sustainable quality, matched against the approved kitchen sample and the specification signed off by the customer

Benchmark competitors product and conduct consistency panels

Be customer facing and support the commercial teams for presentations and sample submissions.

Support factory in quality improvement projects on recipe improvements and cost reductions

Brief new, revised and repeat material requirements to the NPD buyers and packaging innovation team to ensure the correct resources are available for product development and factory trials

Ideal candidate

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Ideally graduate calibre with a consumer science degree; may have entered via an apprentice route

Previous experience of working in a similar role environment (may have been a work placement)

Good food knowledge

Analytical and numerate

Good communication skills

About the company

Greencore Group is a fast growing, international convenience food leader, having doubled our sales over the past 5 years. We’re looking for passionate, talented people who can help us to drive our future success. People who innovate, create, lead and inspire. We set the bar high, and expect that our people do too.

We value our people and we expect our people to work the Greencore Way (check out our LinkedIn page or https://www.greencore.com/about-us/the-greencore-way for more information on this)